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After Alphonso's death in 1613, Aemilia Lanyer continued to pursue rights to the hay-and-grain patent on behalf of herself and later her grandchildren. Of Patience, Love, Long suffring, Voide of strife. "Salve Deus" begins with a short tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth I and moves to a lengthy and meditative dedication of the work to the countess dowager of Cumberland. The item Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 1611 represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. They begin with eleven dedicatory pieces, nine in verse and two in prose, each of which celebrates in some fashion the achievements and community of women: "To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie" (to James's consort, Anne of Denmark); "To the Lady Elizabeths Grace" (to Princess Elizabeth Stuart); "To all vertuous Ladies in generall"; "To the Ladie Arabella" (to Arabella Stuart, James's perceived rival for the throne—a poem missing from three of the four incomplete volumes); "To the Ladie Susan, Countess Dowager of Kent, and daughter to the Duchesse of Suffolke"; "The Authors Dreame to the Ladie Marie, the Countesse Dowager of Pembrooke" (Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, sister of Sir Philip Sidney, and a recognized author in her own right); "To the Ladie Lucie, Countesse of Bedford"; "To the Ladie Margaret Countesse Dowager of Cumberland" (in prose; Lanyer's principal dedicatee); "To the Ladie Katherine Countesse of Suffolke"; "To the Ladie Anne, Countesse of Dorcet" (Margaret's daughter, at the time fighting to inherit her late father's lands); "To the Vertuous Reader" (in prose). By collapsing her unworthiness as a woman into the general unworthiness all poets must acknowledge in their dedications to the high born, she renders the happenstance of gender as visible—and as ultimately inconsequential—as the male poet's happenstance of birth. (See Mark 14.26-16.11, Luke 22.39-24.12, and John 18.1-20.18.) Yet, Lanyer's poetic Passion account shares its emphasis on the privacy, controlled access, and eroticized reading practices associated with the closet. Its she that must instruct and eleuate. The catalogue concludes with an extensive comparison between the countess and the Queen of Sheba, who sought the wisdom of Solomon. Both the entries from Forman's diaries and Lanyer's own poetry suggest that she was a woman of considerable intelligence and spirit. After Alphonso died in 1613, she found herself in protracted legal battles with his relatives over the income from a hay-and-grain patent he had received from King James in 1604. Salve Deus Rex Judæorum , Lanyer's only book, was entered into the Stationers' Register on 2 October 1610 and published in 1611, the same year as the King James version of the Bible; John Donne's First Anniversary; several printings and reprintings of quarto plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe; George Chapman's translation of Homer's Iliad; and the first collected edition of Edmund Spenser's works. The first identifiable woman religious poet writing in English was probably Anne Lok, who appended a poetic meditation on the fifty-first Psalm to her translation from the French of John Calvin's Sermons upon the Songe that Ezechias made after he had bene sicke (1560). The volume is also arguably the first genuinely feminist publication in England: all of its dedicatees are women, the poem on the Passion specifically argues the virtues of women as opposed to the vices of men, and Lanyer's own authorial voice is assured and unapologetic. L There are nine extant copies of the Salve Deus, five of which are complete or nearly so. The Holy Bible is a work of men. How a cultural revival inspired an era of unprecedented poetic evolution. In a volume of one hundred and fourteen pages, only fifty eight of those are taken up by the actual text of “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum.” The book opens with a rather nondescript title page, listing a rough outline of what is found in the text of the poem, likely to give prospective readers an idea of what they will find inside. The volume reproduces the original spelling and The poem addresses the Passion of Christ, contrasting the virtuous women with the evil men, and includes a section defending Eve and all women. 27.19). Lanyer's conclusion implies that the poem was commissioned by the countess ("Wherein I have perform'd her noble hest"), and therefore asserts itself as a professional work in a longstanding tradition of poet as memorializer of great places, persons, and deeds. Lanyer spent her later years near her son's family. Mourning in Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum ELIZABETH M. A. HODGSON By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.-W. H. Auden' Aemelia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum is in some re-spects a chaotic text, with a wide array of disparate styles, sub-jects, voices, and moods loosely held together by Lanyer's

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